Marley & Me-Marley to the Rescue By. MK Gaudet
Grade Level: K and 1st
This simple book is about a dog name Marley. Marley’s owners are John and Jenny. The book then goes onto to say how Marley is a part of the family and things that he does for fun and where he lives. Marley also likes the neighbor named Lisa. Then one night, Marley starts to bark. John goes outside and sees the neighbor Lisa in a panic; some man has stolen her purse. Then John and Jenny start to look around for Marley and he is nowhere to be found. Finally, the police come back with Marley and they figure out that he caught the person who stole Lisa’s purse. Marley ends up being the hero.
Grade Level: K and 1st
This simple book is about a dog name Marley. Marley’s owners are John and Jenny. The book then goes onto to say how Marley is a part of the family and things that he does for fun and where he lives. Marley also likes the neighbor named Lisa. Then one night, Marley starts to bark. John goes outside and sees the neighbor Lisa in a panic; some man has stolen her purse. Then John and Jenny start to look around for Marley and he is nowhere to be found. Finally, the police come back with Marley and they figure out that he caught the person who stole Lisa’s purse. Marley ends up being the hero.
Strategy Connection: I decided to pick this book because I thought the Kindergartners could do a question strategy for this book. The students could "read with a question in mind" (pg. 117). I could begin this lesson by asking the students what kind of rescue did Marley do? The children could answer this question and then ask themselves different questions such as "has my animal every made a rescue? what kind of rescues can animals do"? Even though, this is basic I think that it is age appropriate for K-1st grade. They could answer the obvious question about the book and then come up with other questions that they could research.
Grandfather’s Journey By. Allen Say
Grade Level: 2nd and 3rd
This book begins by telling a story of a grandfather who was born in Japan. The grandfather left his home in Japan and went to the New World. He saw numerous things (deserts, tall buildings, rivers) that he loved in the New World. He also met different people in the New World,” he shook hands with black men and white men, with yellow and red men.” The man decided that he loved the New World so much that he was going to live in California. He then returned back to Japan to marry his childhood sweetheart, however he did not stay in Japan he went right back to California. The new husband and wife had a child and the husband (previously the grandfather started to miss Japan). As the daughter grew up, her dad began to miss his hometown more and more. He eventually moved back Japan and saw all the things he had once loved (mountains and rivers). The daughter then got married and had a child. The child wanted to see where his grandpa used to live (California). The grandfather started to plan a trip for him and his grandson to go visit California. However, the war broke out and Japan was almost destroyed and the trip the grandfather planned never happened. The conclusion of the book talks about the grandson going to visit California by himself and how it made him homesick for Japan.
Strategy Connection: This book was great for "responding to beyond the line questions in literature" strategy (pg.120). The reason this book was great for this is because you could ask the children what was the grandfather's journey like. The students could not answer this question in one word so that would have to read the book critically.The teacher could asks certain events about the book such as what happened after he moved from Japan? Why do you think this happened? Would you like to take Grandfather's journey? Why or why not? This book will make the readers wonder what life is like in other countries which is a great research question. This books will hopefully make the students think and wonder outside the box!
Grandfather’s Journey By. Allen Say
Grade Level: 2nd and 3rd
This book begins by telling a story of a grandfather who was born in Japan. The grandfather left his home in Japan and went to the New World. He saw numerous things (deserts, tall buildings, rivers) that he loved in the New World. He also met different people in the New World,” he shook hands with black men and white men, with yellow and red men.” The man decided that he loved the New World so much that he was going to live in California. He then returned back to Japan to marry his childhood sweetheart, however he did not stay in Japan he went right back to California. The new husband and wife had a child and the husband (previously the grandfather started to miss Japan). As the daughter grew up, her dad began to miss his hometown more and more. He eventually moved back Japan and saw all the things he had once loved (mountains and rivers). The daughter then got married and had a child. The child wanted to see where his grandpa used to live (California). The grandfather started to plan a trip for him and his grandson to go visit California. However, the war broke out and Japan was almost destroyed and the trip the grandfather planned never happened. The conclusion of the book talks about the grandson going to visit California by himself and how it made him homesick for Japan.
Strategy Connection: This book was great for "responding to beyond the line questions in literature" strategy (pg.120). The reason this book was great for this is because you could ask the children what was the grandfather's journey like. The students could not answer this question in one word so that would have to read the book critically.The teacher could asks certain events about the book such as what happened after he moved from Japan? Why do you think this happened? Would you like to take Grandfather's journey? Why or why not? This book will make the readers wonder what life is like in other countries which is a great research question. This books will hopefully make the students think and wonder outside the box!
You Can Do It! By Tony. Dungy
Grade Level: 2nd and 3rd
You Can do It, is based on a true story about Tony Dungy life. The main character in the book Linden begins by having a bad day at school. He has a sore tooth and touches it in the middle of class and makes a sound out of pain but ends up looking like he is trying to quack. Linden gets in trouble and just wants to go home. Finally, Linden gets to go home! Linden walks home with his brother who talks about how much he wants to become a football player when he grows up. Linden begins to question what he is good at. Linden wants to find his “it.” He gets frustrated that he does not know what he wants to do but his dad reassures him that he has plenty of time to figure out what his “it” is. At the end, Linden visits the dentist to fix his tooth. He becomes interested in dentistry and asks the dentist several questions. Linden discovers that he may have just found his “it.” Eventually, Linden becomes a dentist.
Grade Level: 2nd and 3rd
You Can do It, is based on a true story about Tony Dungy life. The main character in the book Linden begins by having a bad day at school. He has a sore tooth and touches it in the middle of class and makes a sound out of pain but ends up looking like he is trying to quack. Linden gets in trouble and just wants to go home. Finally, Linden gets to go home! Linden walks home with his brother who talks about how much he wants to become a football player when he grows up. Linden begins to question what he is good at. Linden wants to find his “it.” He gets frustrated that he does not know what he wants to do but his dad reassures him that he has plenty of time to figure out what his “it” is. At the end, Linden visits the dentist to fix his tooth. He becomes interested in dentistry and asks the dentist several questions. Linden discovers that he may have just found his “it.” Eventually, Linden becomes a dentist.
Strategy Connection: This book highlights a big question most kids ask themselves-what do they want to be when they are older? The teacher could read this book to their children and then have them think about and answer what they want to be when they are older. They could also write how they would feel if they were Linden in this book. The students could also make a "I learned and I wonder"chart for this book. The children could write down what they learned after reading the book and then write down what else they wonder. This book could also teaches about family and the teacher could ask questions about their own family and how it is the same or different from the family in the book. I just like this book because I think it deals with a character questioning!
*I figured out that almost any book could be used as a questioning strategy book. Teachers just need to make sure students question some aspect of the book and that will engage them more!
7 comments:
I just wanted to post and say that the group that went today did a really good job today presenting their strategy. I had learned about the text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world strategies before but they did a good job with quickly summarizing it all. I think those strategies are fun for kids to do, especially text-to-self because it is usually easy for kids to relate something they have read to their own life. I think most readers do that all of the time anyways .
I also really enjoyed this group's strategy presentation about questioning. I have heard about text to text, text to self, and text to world, from practicing these in my language arts cluster. I actually had trouble doing the text to world relationships within my own reading, so I think that it would be a little difficult for young children. I would definitely like to know a bit more about how to help children understand the text to world relationships.
Of course all the groups so far have done an excellent job with their presentations! I think posting the text sets to the blog with the brief summaries is such a great idea because it gives us such an assortment of books to choose for our classroom library! I'm looking forward to seeing what else everyone has come up with!
I really enjoyed this group's presentation today. I thought all the information was straight to the point and the activity we engaged in was practical and useful. I thought the book choices you had in class as well as the ones you posted for the text set are very helpful for us as future teachers. I'm sure we are all always looking for more resources and texts to use in our classrooms so I'm thankful that this group put a lot of thought and effort into the books they presented to us.
I really liked doing the making connections presentation because it helped me think about choosing good books. It was more challenging to find books that I felt children could make text to word connections to because they don't know much about the world yet. Therefore, I think it would be good to use magazines and newspapers in addition to texts to show them how to make world connections.
I also enjoyed the questioning presention. It gave me a lot of great tools on how to facilitate discussions on what they have read other than just asking detailed questions with a right or wrong answer.
Chloe! I really like the last book that you chose "You Can Do It" by Tony Dungey. I also think this would be a great book to use for our question strategy! Good Job
Now that we have heard all the different presentations I wanted to write that I found them very beneficial. I liked how we were able to actively participate in all the different strategies. This will help me remember them because I personally tried many of them in class.
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